The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,


-Schwalbe believes malarial fever "a
be due to a poison, and not to an
organism. He claims that, by making
animals absorb repeated doses Of sui.
phide OF carbon, or oxy-sulphide Of
carbon dissolved in poppy-oil. he can
induce the alterations in the blood and
organs which are present in patients
dead Of malarial fever.
"A full description of the great
Southern comet of this year has been
published BY DR.. j. NJ Thorne, of the
0outhAmerican observatory of Cordova.
he says it was in effect all tail, being
without nucleus or condensation of any
sort The tall was more than forty
degrees long, narrow, clearly-defined,
and very graceful in appearance
~ r Ledger.
AN industrial canvass of $50 Maine
cities and towns by the Lewistown
0asctte shows that thus far this year
there have been erected 1000 houses,
% school houses. and adozen churches,
putting 5000. 900 into new buildings
OF all kinds There are $4,000 persons
engaged in producing over $56, 700. 100
worth of goods. and already las new
enterprises have been started.
The suggestion that the Chinese
make use of several plants as ginger
which are not known as such by
European botanists, has led to an in
vestigation by Mr. Charles Ford. of
Hong Kong, who finds only one sort,
which Is the commonly cultivated
species botanically know as Zinoibcr
1Dcsnale. This plant, however, varies
greatly in its quality with the soil upon
which it is grown.-M r. LEDGER.
"A case OF lock-jaw caused by a
wound has been successfully treated by
!'r. Mayer. in Germany. who admins
tered fifteen-grain doses of choral
hydrate and bromide of potassium al
ternately every hour for fourteen days.
Then he discontinued the choral
hydrate. but gave the bromide month
longer, at the end of which the cure
was complete, although the patient
was left very weakly T. Ledger.
Mr.. Ernest Hart, of the Smoke
Abatement Institute, fears that London
will always suffer from fogs. because it
Is placed in river valley. on q clay soil,
and Is bordered on the Essex side by
tow-lying lands very impcrfectly
drained, and on the north side by the
Harrow Weald. The fogs generated,
the results of damp exhalations, are
greatly aggravated by the parks. most
OF which require draining. But If the
smoke Is got rid of the fogs will be
much less dense. Boston Budget.
limo for Mariners.-The plan Of |
signaling accurate time from sea-coaats
was first adopted by Great Britain
about thirty years ago. That country
now has on its coasts fourteen time
balls and five other time-signals, and
its colonies and dependencies have
twenty-six time-balls; Germany has
seven time-balls; France. four time-balls
and two other time-signals; Sweden and
Norway. Austria Hungary, Holland
with Belgium, and the United States
have five time-balls each; Denmark has
two; Spain and Portugal, one each;
Italy, none.-Arkansav Traveller.
1t is gratifying sight to see the
iron and steel making capacity of the
entire country fully employed. It is
pleasing also to note the conservative
tendency among both producers and
consumers. Receipts of foreign ma
terial are uncomfortably large for Amer
lean makers, and this condition of
things will be remedied just as rapidly
rs circumstances will permit An enor-
nous demand is pressing on producing
for rails, rail fastenings. loco
motives. cars and equipments Of every
character. There is also a heavy de-
mand for electrical appliances among
railway managers, and the erection of
electrical plants in the West is being
stimulated. Roils0ay Review.
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